After accident victim's death, fired dispatcher wants job back

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NORTH PORT: A 9-1-1 dispatcher was fired for not sending police on a call that ended in a man's death. Now, that dispatcher wants her job back. NBC2 spoke to the victim's brother, and he says he wants answers.

Corey Wood drove 1,300 miles to see exactly where his brother Brian died.

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"I just punched in ‘North Port' and a couple of streets the kids got right before I listened to the 9-1-1 call in Connecticut. I had a map shoot up in front of me. I was yelling at the computer, ‘Hey, he's telling you exactly where to go. He's telling you exactly how to get there,'" he said.

Someone made a 9-1-1 call from a 7-11. While he didn't know the exact street name, he tried to give the dispatcher directions.

The caller was able to give surrounding street names, but not the exact street where Brian would lay on the ground for 19 hours until his death.

DISPATCH: I've tried Lovebird and I've tried Lovesong. CALLER: Well, I know I saw the street name. Um, if you can maybe send a squad to the last street on the right. DISPATCH: Unfortunately, assistance doesn't work that like that. I have to have something.

Officials with the North Port Police Department say at that point, the operator, Nadia Kashitskaya, should have sent an officer to the area.

But she didn't.

Ultimately, it took a second 9-1-1 call for police to respond. By then, it was too late.

Kashitskaya wouldn't comment on camera, but in her appeal to the city, she claimed she was not provided adequate information for her to determine an emergency situation occurred and the complaintant was unable to give a location.

But Corey Wood says he disagrees. He listened to the 9-1-1 call several times.

"Somebody gave me directions and I drove here. I drove here from 41 to here in less than 10 minutes. How fast could a cop have gotten down here?" he asked.

For the first time Thursday, Wood looked over the site where his brother lay with no help and said his final goodbye

But Wood says all he keeps wondering about is what if his brother was helped in time.

"She made a grave mistake. My brother could be alive today," said Wood.

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